Articles from blog.chainalysis.com

Articles from blog.chainalysis.com

A mid-2023 crypto crime update: inflows to illicit entities drop 65% YoY, scammers net ~$3.3B less than H1 2022, and ransomware took $175.8M more than H1 2022 (blog.chainalysis.com)
2023-7-13

Analysis: 24% of the tokens launched in 2022 that “got traction” saw a price drop of 90% or more in the first week of trading, suggesting pump-and-dump activity (blog.chainalysis.com)
2023-2-17

Analysis: darknet markets made $1.5B in revenue in 2022, down from $3.1B in 2021, led by Hydra Market, despite being shut down by German police in April 2022 (blog.chainalysis.com)
2023-2-10 Germany Darknet

Analysis: 2022 was the biggest year ever for crypto hacking, with $3.8B stolen, primarily from DeFi protocols and by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group (blog.chainalysis.com)
2023-2-2 Korea

A look at crypto money laundering in 2022: illicit addresses sent nearly $23.8B, up 68% YoY, four addresses got $1B+ combined, DeFi got record funds, and more (blog.chainalysis.com)
2023-1-27

Analysis: ransomware attackers received at least ~$457M in 2022, a low estimate, down from ~$766M in 2020 and 2021, as victims increasingly refuse to pay (blog.chainalysis.com)
2023-1-20

Analysis: in 2022, illicit crypto transaction volume rose to an all-time high of $20.1B, of which 44% came from activity associated with sanctioned entities (blog.chainalysis.com)
2023-1-13

A look at the US government's crypto-related sanctions strategy, the types of entities sanctioned, and the impact of the sanctions on the crypto crime ecosystem (blog.chainalysis.com)
2023-1-10

Analysis of weekly realized gains and losses of all personal crypto wallets in 2022: UST's collapse caused $20.5B in losses, Celsius and 3AC $33B, and FTX $9B (blog.chainalysis.com)
2022-12-15

Analysis: in 2022 through July, crypto transaction volumes are lagging behind 2021; illicit volumes are down 15% YoY and legitimate volumes are down 36% YoY (blog.chainalysis.com)
2022-8-17

A breakdown of the $7.6B+ in ETH that Tornado Cash received since 2019 shows 49.6% was from DeFi, 17.7% was from sanctioned entities, and 10.5% was stolen funds (blog.chainalysis.com)
2022-8-9 ETH

Analysis: $2B in crypto has been stolen from cross-chain bridges across 13 hacks in 2022 so far, accounting for 69% of total funds stolen (blog.chainalysis.com)
2022-8-4

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